Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov

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Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov
Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov
Country: USSR / Russia
Organization: none / Roscosmos
selected on March 22, 1972
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		August 29, 1988
Landing of the
last space flight: 		March 22, 1995
Time in space: 678d 16h 32min
retired on June 1, 1995
Space flights

Valeri Wladimirowitsch Polyakov ( Russian: Валерий Владимирович Поляков , scientific transliteration Valerij Vladimirovič Polyakov ; born April 27, 1942 in Tula , Tula Oblast , Russian SFSR ) is a doctor, former Soviet military service colonel and Russian medical officer . He was born Valeri Ivanovich Korschunow and changed his name in 1957 after his stepfather's adoption.

Space flights

Polyakov was selected on March 22, 1972 as a cosmonaut with Medical Group 3. He took part in the two long-term missions Mir LD-2 and Mir LD-4 and spent a total of 678 days, 16 hours and 32 minutes in space. He returned from his Soyuz TM-18 flight to the Mir space station in 437 days, 17 hours, 58 minutes and four seconds in Soyuz TM-20 (January 8, 1994 to March 22, 1995). He holds the world record for the longest lasting space flight. In contrast to other long-term space travelers, he has not performed a single space exit. In April 1995, Polyakov was awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation by a decree of the then Russian President, Boris Yeltsin . On June 1, 1995, he left the cosmonaut program.

Private

Polyakov is married and has one child.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://astronaut.ru/crossroad/210.htm. Retrieved March 22, 2018 (Russian).
  2. ↑ http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=871 Russian
personal data
SURNAME Polyakov, Valery Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Поляков, Валерий Владимирович (Russian); Korschunow, Valeri Ivanovich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet cosmonaut
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Tula , Tula Oblast, Russian SFSR